Board of Commissioners - Regular Meeting

This is quite a robust meeting tonight, so welcome everybody to the September 21st, 2026 Board of Commissioners regular meeting. I will call this meeting to order. If you all will please stand with me for the Pledge of Allegiance and remain standing for invocation.

And I will invite Michael Roberts up for our invocation. Good evening.

Thank you, Michael. All right, I do need a motion to approve the minutes as presented. All those in favor, please say aye. Any opposed? all right that carries 5-0 and i also want to take this opportunity to introduce we do have a youth commissioner with us this evening we are so excited to have her back up here on the dais with us kavia saxena would you please introduce yourself to everyone good afternoon everyone thank you so much for those sweet words I appreciate it and I think the world of you just so you know all right so I do need a motion to approve the agenda with any of the changes th

Thank you. All right, commissioners, I do need a motion to adopt this proclamation as presented. All those in favor, please say aye. Any opposed? All right, that carries 5-0. Thank you, ma'am. All right, we will move on to Item 2 under Recognitions and Presentations of Cooperative Extension, Recognition of the Youth Commissioners with Ms. Tracy LeCompte. Hello, good evening.

Thank you for coming. Y'all did great. See, that was so easy.

Thank you. Thank you, Tracy. And thank you for bringing all of the youth commissioners. And just so you know, I will be your liaison as well and i did have the intention of coming to your meeting tonight however we had a special called meeting this evening as well so but i'm very proud of all of you i look forward to hearing about your your passion project and what you decide to do for this year so thank you all So we will move on to informal public comments. Before we do, do you mind putting up the directions again for the public comments? Thank you. So I had a few questions about this, and I

Thank you, ma'am. All right. So we will move on to the consent agenda. Commissioners, I need a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. So moved. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Any opposed? All right, that carries 5-0. Okay, so we will move on to new business. Um, our first item is the consolidated human services agency, transportation 53, 11 grant application, public hearing. Um, were we going to have Charles, did you need to come up and speak regarding this? Okay. All right. So we do have a need for a public hearing on this grant and I believe those are the blue ones.

In a second, please. All right, any discussion? All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That carries 5-0. Thank you. We will move on to the item number four, public records request policy with Doug Hall.

All those in favor, please say aye. Any opposed? That carries five zero. We will move on to item number five, which is the resolution of Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners to postpone the Cabarrus County revaluation schedule from January 1st, 2028 to January 1st, 2029, and to implement subsequent appraisals every four years after. Did you have anything you'd like to add, or David, regarding this? Okay. Commissioners, do you have any questions regarding this? Okay. I do need a motion to approve this resolution as presented.

All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? No. Okay. That carries for one. All right. Moving on to item number six. under new business we have boards and committees with VEA partners appointment and basically this is a Partners Health Management Board of Directors and VEA partners will be merging to form a unified entity following the merger VEA Partners will be governed through two complementary bodies, the VEA Partners Governing Board and the VEA Partners County Commissioner Advisory Board. The VEA Partners County Commissioner Advisory Board selected a representative, Commissioner

I'm excited about this, and I made some comments during the special meeting at 5, but I just wanted to add a few things. You know, tonight, I think tonight we have a chance to do something that's very simple but long overdue. make sure that when new investment comes to the county, the families who already live here see a real return. I'm proud to have helped craft this resolution with all of you, and it does two things at once. First, it sets clear performance-based rules for business development grants, so we attract the right kind of growth, jobs, wages, capital investment, and companies wil

All right, Commissioner. Before we vote on it, I know when we had talked, we kind of bounced back. I know we went up front, but can we put like a little ticker on the front of the web page to actually, to where people don't have to click 700 different clicks to find how much is in that fund? Can we put it right there on the page so we can watch it go up?

Absolutely. Yeah. All right, so I do have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All right, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? None. All right, that carries 4-1. all right so we have moved on to reports they are included in your packet we do have vacancies available for our boards and committees if you are interested i do encourage you all to go fill those out as well and commissioners i will start with commissioner pittman any reports that you have for this month

Did have, but unfortunately, I left my notebook in my truck.

That's OK. We'll give you a pass on that. You had to go let Tammy answer.

My wife tells me I usually take too long with that anyway.

Tammy, we love you. Commissioner Wortman.

We had the mental health board of directors meeting. Technically, it's an organizational meeting at this point. It's not an official meeting because we still have to fill several spots. So we have discussed the different spots that we need to fill, ranging from everywhere from somebody with lived experience to possibly a youth person with lived experience as well. So we get that perspective in there. then we had discussed at the meeting wednesday october 7th 2026 from 10 a.m to 4 p.m is the cabarrus county mental health simulation to where people can participate and see what it is like and wha

At our most recent meeting, we received an update from Deputy Social Service Director Thomas Mitchell regarding the anticipated changes associated with the implementation of HR1 and the potential impacts on human services programs and the residents they serve. This is all a result of the transparency resolution we passed. They want it on the website. They are still developing that to put it out there, but we are very close to going live with that. The Board of Members engaged in discussion about the evolving requirements and importance of keeping the community informed as additional guidance b

Thank you, sir. Alright, Commissioner Patrick.

Couple of quick ones. This morning we had Active Living Center's Advisory Council. One event I want to mention is Scam Jam, and that's where you can go and learn about how to spot scams out there, either via email, phone, or any other way. That's going to be October 2nd, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Afton Active Living Center. and i just want to add because a lot of people always ask yes they will have shredders and yes they will have medicine disposal so i expect a bunch of people to show up i do want to talk about afton so it will be an early voting site and that means that we can't hold the progra

all right so we will move on to general comments commissioner pittman did you have any general comments you'd like to make i'll just say relative to my earlier failure i will see if i can't write up a report and email it to y'all so you'll get the report i would have given thank you sir commissioner wartman

um thank you commissioner patrick and to the rest of the board for allowing me to serve on something that's very important to me even when i'm off this board so thank you all of you thank all of you for your support and your your belief in me to be able to get that done and um i talked to several of you before the meeting we heard quite a bit tonight during general comment about questions on the constitutional amendment so i asked County Manager Eller if we can just put the material from our last work session on the transparency page we have covered it a lot in detail and and there is informat

Thank you. Commissioner Jones? all right all right commissioner patrick did you have any general comments okay so we will move on to uh first i'm going to have my animal shelter video um i had the honor of having two sweet little uh sapphire um was the uh the dog and autumn was the kitten this this month so hey i'm laura this is sapphire And this is Autumn. And we're here at the Cabarrus County Animal Shelter to help you fall in love.

This is Sapphire. She is a six-year-old pit bull mix who has been at the shelter for approximately three months. She's a jewel. This is Autumn. She is a three-month-old gray tortie and has been at the shelter for approximately one month. Don't leave her here. Thanks for joining us and don't forget you can always go to www.cabarruscounty.us backslash animals for more information. There you can find adoptable pets, applications to volunteer or for adoption and more shelter information. have to continue to thank Jonathan Weaver for he is he is a mastermind behind a lot of this and he just he just